Englewood, CO - The Englewood Fire Department has signed up with Golden-based PSTrax to automate its apparatus and equipment checks. It is the fifth Colorado fire department to enlist the services of the startup, whose aim is to replace tedious and mistake-prone paper logbooks with a software service designed to automate all of a department’s preventive maintenance inspections.

Although most fire departments have sophisticated software for incident reporting and fire prevention inspections, a majority still use pen-and-paper check sheets for their preventive maintenance checks. And with so much equipment to look after, keeping track of it all by hand can be time- and labor-intensive.